Arranged by inner London Borough, BRUTAL LONDON takes in famous examples such as the Trellick Tower, the Brunswick Centre and the Alexandra Road Estate, as well as lesser known housing and municipal spaces. At their best, these projects were never rabbit hutches but integrated into the environment with space to play for children, greenery and community facilities built into the design. The nearest train station to ‘No 1’ Brutalist Building Croydon is East Croydon, easily accessible from London Victoria station, Clapham Junction station and London Bridge station. There’s also the “enduringly impressive” Weston Rise Estate in Pentonville Road, which was designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis for the GLC and built over five years between 1965 and 1969.

Brutal London: A Photographic Exploration of Post-War London Brutal London: A Photographic Exploration of Post-War London

Like Robin Hood Gardens, Welbeck Street car park didn’t even last 50 years, such is the nature of the disposable London cityscape. They are invariably attracted, like engineers, to the ideal of humanity rather than the actuality of our chaotic species. There’s no mistaking the building’s pale Brutalist concrete frame, it’s ambitious design thrown into relief by the Gothic buildings of St Pancras looming in the background. They were behind the controversial Hunstanton Secondary Modern School in Norfolk, which was completed in 1954 when the couple were still in their twenties. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report.Added to that the windows were poorly designed so there was a problem about insulation in a very cold country. There are plenty of food trucks along the riverbank for a low-key lunch or pre-performance bite before heading along to the National Theatre, as well as many on-site restaurants. Though it might not be as well-known as Lasdun’s Brutalist masterpiece, The National Theatre, his design for the Royal College of Physicians is one you should see nonetheless. Brutal London presents a new photographic look at a side of the capital which has been ignored for too long.

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The architectural experiment, the result of noble minds wanting to do rational noble things, broke on the fact that the ultimate local authority patrons of the experiment lost interest because of political, social, economic and cultural pressures out of their control.As was the case with its high-rise cousins, the flats in the Alexandra Road estate were designed to be egalitarian, a notion that holds true with the majority of Brutalist housing. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. For example you can walk from the Hayward Gallery to the Southbank Market directly via a series of interconnecting landings and stairs. As such, things like lift shafts, ventilation ducts, staircases – even boiler rooms, were integrated into the fabric of the building in ways that celebrated them as distinct features rather than hidden away. We saw the emergence of a population without a property stake in its own environment or the resources to take over maintenance issues once the local authorities abandoned their commitment to do so because of lack of funds.

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Given the smaller scale, we wouldn’t say this is worth a special journey in itself in terms of Brutalist London architecture but it’s fine to combine it with a day trip to Highgate. In general (with a few exceptions) this was public sector architecture, fruitfully competing with the equally important Scandinavian 'social democrat' model. Assuming effective economic managers (which is a big assumption) and the will to house the population (especially young families), the next step is to delegate financial and decision-making powers to plenipotentiary local authorities (reversing policies of the last thirty or more years).In London, it was used heavily in reconstructing the city in the aftermath of World War II – particularly for social housing and government buildings – though as it grew in popularity its uses extended beyond these spheres.